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The Island of Doctor Moreau

Herbert George Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau

Paper book: €18.99

Digital: €4.99

Original publication
1896
Pages
343
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Science Fiction, Horror
Moods
Get the chills, Think it through, Imagine tomorrow
Translated from
English

Book summary

Saved from a shipwreck, Edward Prendick is put ashore on a remote island in the Pacific, home to a banished scientist, Dr Moreau, and his assistant. At night, screams come from the laboratory. The island's strange inhabitants recite a Law like a prayer: “Not to go on all-fours; that is the Law.”

H. G. Wells asks a question that is still with us: how far does science have the right to go, and what separates man from animal?

Full of suspense, this novel is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

海難倖存者來到流亡科學家的島上。一場海難之後,熱愛科學的英國人愛德華·普倫迪克來到了莫羅博士的島上。這個名字讓他想起一樁醜聞:在倫敦,一名記者曾揭露這位科學家對活體動物所做的殘忍實驗。

The world of the book

達爾文時代的一座太平洋島嶼。故事發生在1887年,地點是英國科學家莫羅博士藏身的島嶼。這是一座被珊瑚礁環繞的小火山島,距南美洲海岸兩千多公里。在英國,偉大的科學家查爾斯·達爾文已經證明,人類與動物擁有共同的祖先。英國人也在爭論用活體動物做實驗的問題。

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